J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Colour Studies of the Sun, Skies and ... > Skies Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of a Landscape at Dawn or Dusk c.1818

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of a Landscape at Dawn or Dusk’ c.1818
Folio 46 Recto:
Study of a Landscape at Dawn or Dusk c.1818
D12494
Turner Bequest CLVIII 46
Watercolour on white wove paper, 125 x 247 mm
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Inscribed in red ink ‘46’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CLVIII – 46’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This page depicts a rural landscape. The washes of orange and red paint that cover the upper two-thirds of the sheet suggest that it is either dawn or dusk. This page is comparable to folio 44 recto (D12492) and to some of the works featured in Matthew Imms’s parallel ‘Colour Studies of the Sun and Clouds at Dawn and Sunset c.1815–40’ subsection of the present catalogue.
See the sketchbook’s Introduction for general notes on possible locations and dating.
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Caitlin Doley
July 2024

How to cite

Caitlin Doley, ‘Study of a Landscape at Dawn or Dusk c.1818’, catalogue entry, July 2024, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, October 2024, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/study-of-a-landscape-at-dawn-or-dusk-r1208918, accessed 04 June 2025.